Perfect
I am the registered keeper and the bundle of paperwork I’ve been provided by the court has my correct address and has the date of the NIP sent on the 12/04/2023
When you say proceedings must begin - I have a document ‘postal requisition’ which is dated 11/12/2023
Then I have a SJPN with a postal date of 16/01/2024 and written on there underneath the FtF is charge date of 10/01/2024
So what date and what document means ‘proceedings have begun’
OK - I didn't realise you had previously mentioned that you already had a copy of the NIP you never received originally - I thought you were using 12 April 2023 as the date you
assumed it had been sent, not that you
knew that that was when it was sent. My mistake. Apologies.
If you are confirming that you are the RK and that your NIP was sent to you at your correct address on 12 April 2023, then I think Andy Foster has already answered your question.
ie the offence of failing to identify would have been committed on or around 14 May 2023. So the police would have had until 6 months later - on or around 14 November 2023 - in which to charge you with failing to identify. If they only just got round even to checking whether you had replied or not on 22 November 2023, they would seem on the face of it to be out of time. Even more so if the date you have been given for the "written charge" is 10 January 2024 - nine months after the date of the NIP that was sent to you, so almost two whole months late.
But see what others say. I'd have thought it quite unusual for the police to charge someone so late, but who knows...?
(My comments assume the info and dates you have provided are accurate. I note that you did say in the previous Reply #14 that "
I'm sorry I don’t know how to word things properly and my memory/processing is not great. I keep having to read and re read and it’s confusing for me." Somebody has already suggested that it might be a good idea to post up redacted copies of the NIP/172 and the SJPN you have received)
